Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.3-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5418798
  • published12 Apr 2023
  • disclosed12 Apr 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-1829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.3-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free such that the tcindex_delete function does not properly deactivate filters in case of perfect hashes while deleting the underlying structure which can later lead to double freeing the structure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1